I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in; these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.